Nerdist Podcast: Joel Kinnaman

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The new Robocop, Joel Kinnaman, hangs out with Chris to talk about being in the Robocop suit for 14 hours a day, moving from Sweden to a small town in Texas, and how action movies have changed over the years!

Yeah Joel is right. Visiting Sweden is the best in July-Sep. Rest of the year you’re just try to fend yourself agains the cold and the shitty weather mother nature finds fitting throwing at ya. And let me tell ya dude, mother nature is a nasty coldhearted bitch.

Joel’s right… Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun is what introduced the world to a young Christian Bale.

What blows my mind about that movie is seeing a 20-something Ben Stiller, looking all adult, playing right alongside Christian Bale, who is knee-high to a grasshopper. I guess I had never realized almost a decade separates them in age in real life, so when I first saw that movie (way after Bale was a super-famous A-lister), watching those two actors together on-screen felt so surreal.

I also realize I contradicted myself when I said that Empire of the Sun introduced Bale to the world, then went on to say that I didn’t see the movie until well after Bale was famous. Clearly, I’m not representative of “the world”… but I am authorized to speak on its behalf.

So I really like the new robocop movie. It was awesome. It was a perfect way to reboot a movie franchise, my sister and I went and she was not looking forward to it, but decided to go, and she thinks it is one of the better movies that she has seen in a long while. I enjoyed this interview., joel just seemed like a regular normal person. Which is probably hard to come by in his business. I hope you interview him again. It also helps that he is one gorgeous man. I too want to visit Norway, Sweden, and Finland. So it is good to know that July to September are the best times to visit. Oh, and maybe when the killing is done, he can guest star on the walking dead lol.

I thought Kyle’s “ramps dot rom” joke in the intro was really funny. Even though I was walking to the bus and it was -12F outside I laughed until I cried, and tears and snot froze into my beard. So thanks for that…

I was an exchange student in Sweden a long time ago (around the same time as the “hip-hop” phase mentioned in the podcast). All of the exchange students in the school had to take an English class besides the English class they took with their Swedish classmates. It was so weird and unnecessary. We already had opportunities to hang out with each other.
Swedes are great at English but I had a few teachers who I assumed weren’t confident in their English after our first conversation so they told me to just hang out in the library during that class time. I read a lot of books that year. Didn’t help me get to know my class though since in high school over there you basically go to every class with the same group of people.

MORE KYLE! MORE KYLE! MORE KYLE! MORE KYLE! MORE KYLE! MORE KYLE! MORE KYLE!MORE KYLE! MORE KYLE! MORE KYLE! MORE KYLE! MORE KYLE!
I am starting to have a huge crush on Kyle. To my mind he is what would happen if Matt ate Jonah.

@Weebee: you should also know that I responded to you before I saw your 2nd post, so I genuinely was responding to the Gary Oldman thing. I do respond to twat monsters a lot, but it’s more like dealing with hecklers. I promise I respond way more to nice people!

Chris, I understand that I make stupid comments on here to entertain myself but please be aware that I do so out of a place of love. It would have made my day had you responded to my dumb comment about Gary Oldman but instead you replied to some retarded girl trying to be a legitimate twat monster.

I pray to science that one day I will see a comment from you in response to one of my silly posts without my having to troll you or question you like you aren’t already the undisputed king of interviews/hosting.

I’ve actually taken it upon myself to travel to the US regularly and walk around identifying myself as a Swede, to help explain to Americans that we don’t *all* look like Joel Kinnaman or Alexander Skarsgård.

Chris – your “hip hop” phase included Boyz II Men and BBD? Um no sir. You are no longer allowed to refer to that time in your life as a “hip hop” phase. The best you can do is “R&B” phase. Seriously dude. I love you, but that may have seriously been the WHITEST, NERDIEST thing you’ve ever said.